January 2009 Business Outlook Survey (Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank)
Philadelphia Fed launches new index to measure change in business conditions (Philly.com: Philly Deals)

Motorola to cut 4,000 more jobs, sees weak sales (Reuters)

Charter Misses Payments On Some Senior Notes (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)

FCC Boss Martin Leaving For Aspen Institute (Silicon Alley Insider)

Schoolwires raises $12 million for school web site management (VentureBeat)
Schoolwires is based in State College.

RSVP, Haley merged like a comet
As Allied Pixel they took broad steps to alert, reassure clients (Philadelphia Business Journal)

SPINACT launching online knowledge service next month, hiring in '09 (Keystone Edge)

NY officials find wireless network still deficient (Associated Press via Forbes)

SAP upgrades proceeding but maintenance end a factor (Network World)

Retailers seeking more value from existing SAP applications ( SearchSAP.com)

PRWT Taps Mark Schweiker to Head Business Process Outsourcing; Outlines Aggressive Growth Strategy for Enterprise (Business Wire)

Ingres Corporation Selects Boomi AtomSphere for Optimal SaaS Integration and Connectivity (Marketwire)

Unisys Awarded RFID III Contract by U.S. Department of Defense for Radio Frequency Identification Technology (Business Wire)

Don't Hoard Performance Data (Network World:
Community)

Park City Group Completes Acquisition of Prescient Applied Intelligence (Business Wire)

Five-county region sees relative advantage in Einstein name (Newark Star-Ledger)




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Samsung to pay $400 mln for InterDigital licences (Reuters)




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Oracle layoffs not just ex-BEA workers, indicate slowdown (Computerworld)
100 layoffs last week by SAP also reported.




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Jobs taking health-related leave from Apple (San Jose Business Journal)

Apple’s Steve Jobs: “I Have Decided to Take a Medical Leave of Absence” [COMPLETE MEMO]
(All Things Digital: Digital Daily)




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Nortel files for bankruptcy protection, shares plunge (Reuters)

Ametek sees 4th-qtr income at low end of guidance (Associated Press via Forbes)

Shane Says SAP Costs Helped Cause Jeweler’s Decline (Bloomberg)

SAP's golden opportunity in Satyam (Business Week)

For iPipeline form is also its function (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Fault lines emerge at Fed
Bernanke, Philadelphia Fed's Plosser differ publicly on new policy (MarketWatch)
Read Plosser's speech at the University of Delaware.

Tyco Electronics Announces Intent To Change Place of Incorporation From Bermuda to Switzerland (PR Newswire)

Comcast launches all-Obama channel (Politico)

Obama Adviser Lowers Broadband Expectations
New Administration Wants to Avoid Funding Projects That Disrupt Competition (Multichannel News)

ASU, Penn strike tech transfer accord
(Phoenix Business Journal)

Patient Care Technology Systems and CenTrak Integrate Patient and Asset Tracking Solutions for Healthcare Facilities (More RFID)
CenTrak is based in Newtown.

Hardware Hacker Charged With Selling Cable Modems That Get Free Broadband -- Update (Wired Blogs: Threat Level)
Pennsylvania man selling Motorola modems.

ENFORCEMENT PROCEEDINGS - Former Amkor Technology General Counsel Kevin J. Heron Settles Insider Trading Charges; Relief Includes Permanent Anti-Fraud Injunction and Officer and Director Bar (Trading Markets)
Heron was General Counsel of Amkor when it was headquartered in West Chester.

Universal Display Awarded $1,089,600 U.S. Department of Defense SBIR Phase III Contract to Continue Development of Flexible OLED Displays (Business Wire)



ETC reports decrease in 3Q net loss (Philadelphia Inquirer)




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Using Twitter for Breaking News


Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital used Twitter yesterday to break some news: that del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter had joined Google. del.icio.us, the social bookmarking site, was a former portfolio company of First Round before its acquisition by Yahoo. Schachter left Yahoo last June.

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Obama Picks Julius Genachowski to Head FCC (Washington Post)
Obama's FCC choice praised, seen easily confirmed (Reuters)

ExpertPlan Adds On (PE Hub)

CES '09: Flycast's Cd-Quality Radio for Mobile (Tom's Hardware)
FlyCast is based in Lancaster.

Vuzit Gets Funding (DreamIt Ventures Blog)

Motorola Wins eMTA Share At Comcast: Analyst
Wall Street Firm Says MSO Orders Between 50,000 and 100,000 Units (Multichannel News)
Update: Comcast Denies Analyst Report About eMTA Contract
Wall Street Analyst Firm Collins Stewart Claimed MSO Ordered Motorola Modems (Multichannel News)

Comcast apologizes for dropping game ball (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)

Elma Electronic Acquires ACT/Technico (PR Newswire)

Marchex Named in Complaint to FTC (Domain Name Wire)
Marchex's Philadelphia-based VoiceStar unit is at the genesis of the complaint.

Investors PIPE away low-priced small-cap stocks (Philly.com: Philly Deals)


AppLabs partners with Grid Tools, Test Data Management Co (The Hindu)

The Wavecam(TM) Never Blinks (PR Newswire)

What should a modern library be? (P'unk Avenue Window)

Jubilant and BioLeap Announce New Partnership in Drug Discovery (PR Newswire)

DSG Wins SCDM’s Data Driven Innovation Award for Clinical Data Quality Control Implementation at Human Genome Sciences
(Business Wire)




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What's Going to Happen With Business Objects in 2009? (Feeding the SAP Ecosystem)

SAP's CEO and SaaS: Is Denial Working? (Seeking Alpha)

Study: Half of Developers Plan to Work on SaaS in '09 (PC World)

Oracle Layoffs: Hundreds, Not Thousands (All Things Digital)

USA Technologies lays off 22 to meet cash requirement (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Vanguard grew while other funds dropped (Phlly.com: Philly Deals)

TriZetto, Sanovia Join Forces to Offer First Integrated Platform That Helps Payers Control Pharmacy Costs (PR Newswire)

Cable's 'Dream Set-Top' (Light
Reading: Cable Digital News)

BREAKING: Major Shake-up At Sling Media: Krikorian Brothers, Hirschhorn, White, Wilkes Leaving (paidContent)

Cisco To Take DOCSIS 3.0 Modems Over 300 Mbps
Vendor To Use Broadcom Chip For Eight-Downstream Channel Unit (Multichannel News)

Budget ax falls on disaster recovery (IDG via New York Times)
Not good for SunGard.

Snackfeed: A Newsfeed For The Web’s Hottest Video Clips (TechCrunch)

Two Lehigh Valley tech companies share $300,000 in investment capital (Allentown Morning Call)

NextPhase Wireless Opens New Tier 1 Data Center in Philadelphia (TMCnet)




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What FCC's Martin Is Sorry For (PC Magazine)

CES 2009: Comcast, TWC To Flip Tru2way Switch By July 1
Two Biggest MSOs Say They're Ready to Enable Interactive TV Technology Across Their Footprints (Multichannel News)

Comcast ‘TV Warehouse’ To Collect STB Clicks (Multichannel News)

SEPTA, meet Google. Don’t be like D.C. (WHYY: It's Our City)

U.S. Army recruiting at the mall with videogames (Reuters)

Data Analysts Captivated by R’s Power (New York Times)




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People News



Ron Lang Appointed Chief Executive Officer of SunGard Higher Education (Business Wire)

BioNanomatrix Appoints Michael Kochersperger as Vice President of Engineering (PR Newswire)

Razorfish Promotes Matt Dufner and Erica DiPilato as Account Directors (Philly Ad Club News)

Miller Joins Siemens IT Solutions and Services as V.P. of Healthcare Industry Group
(PR Newswire)




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